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so i saw a couple of requests from my last post about people having discord and wanting to join a group for Black desert online so when i get home today in like 20 or 30 minutes im going to make one so if you want to be part of the Black Desert Online Discord group just leave your Discord name in the description and ill add you once i get home its a good way for all of us to keep track of each other and we can play other games with each other until release so the time until release wont feel so long after all Everyone is welcome( Im weeb trash BTW i apologize in advance )

i played JP black desert for a month on Win 10 and i havent had a problem with running the game until recently where it gets to the pearl abyss screen and then crashes but thats probably just something else my other friends on Win 10 who played with me never had any problems i wouldnt worry about it too much

So from my experience of playing this game with a group of 4 of my friends in the JP version this game is very grinding oriented and the quests really dont give much EXP although ive olny played to level 40 before my JP version stopped working so im not 100% sure on this but it seems that even when playing with a group of friends i was better off finding a group of enemies to round of and kill over and over again solo then questing and helping my friends. I like the fact i can grind for my EXP because honestly thats my playstyle and sometimes i really dont feel like running around doing quests and things like that but i feel like grinding shouldnt be the only way to efficiently get EXP. Personally especially for my friends sake and everyone else in this community who doesn't like grinding because honestly it feels like banging your head against a wall over and over until you hear a ding and your number goes up 1, The quests need to give more EXP because it really doesn't make sense that we can go on 5 quests and get 500 exp but by killing 10 normal enemies i can get 1000 exp which is twice as quick as the quest i just completed. Also this game really feels like more of a solo game once you get your dodging down because as a sorc i would solo boesses easily and i imagine these bosses were meant for at least groups of 2 or more. So i guess what im trying to say with all of this is in my opinion anyway BDO needs to sort out its EXP rates a bit. im not saying make grinding less effective but just make questing and make being in a group more effective instead of them being more of a chore.

TDLR: questing levels you up super slow from my experience with the JP version, Grinding is the main way you gain EXP Questing feels more punishing then rewarding

So i guess a little background ive been following this game since Korean alphas have been in love with it ever since. Recently i went and played the JP version with a couple friends and we had alot of fun playing together. But ever since then ive been on the reddit and the fourms and ive seen alot of the worries and problems with the KR,JP, and RU versions of the game ( p2w,potions in PVP, etc) and im honestly scared about the NA/EU versions of the game. ive been hyping this game really hard and ive seen alot of the patterens with the previous MMOs and how they all fall to horrible business practices and bad publishers. i just dont want BDO to fall to the same thing because i really do want to play this game for a very long time and keep playing it years after release. But the way things are going i guess im not to sure that the game we all want is the game were going to get i saw a reddit post that im going to quote and it kinda expains what i mean.

" Another problem I see is that while KR and JP has a lot of different alternatives for MMOs, US is seen as a place that has little mmo and a LOT of impatient gamers (meaning, less competition for customers)Right now, I suspect DAUM to be trying to make NA into a cashcow and let the game slowly die out, like RaiderZ or Dragons Prophet and of course, Trion's Archeage.For a sandbox game, playerbase is EVERYTHING. What DAUM should be doing is promoting more players to come in early and building up that crucial playerbase for the community to sustain themselves later in the years.The fact DAUM is NOT doing that, tells me that they are just trying to milk this game for fast cash and then either going to slowly make it more cash based (like maplestory slowly transitioning from a large free playerbase to a small dedicated whale playerbase). So instead of a large amount of people spending 20 or 50, you have people spending 500-1000$ to gear themselves and be competitive. "- Seishikin on reddit it just scares me because honestly this looks like exactly whats going on and honestly if this is the truth then the truth hurts.

hopefully DAUM and Pearl Abyss do the right thing and make a game for the player and not one that milks the player dry